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from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
idly .
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Examples
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Do not be so sure, what goes around comes around and if we are foolish enough to nuke Iran – the world will not sit idlely by.
Think Progress » 32% 2006
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Question: how does the media know and idlely watch as Obama buys or steals the election.
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But yet, Steinem and others have stood idlely by while the media and special interest have waged a campaign to besmirch and destroy Sarah Palin.
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Everyone just sat around idlely picking their noses and letting Bush, Cheney and them do whatever their little hearts desired.
Irony: Europeans trusted Bush and he spit in their soup 2008
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No person, said the Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts 1648 shall “spend his time idlely or unprofittably under pain of such punishment as the Court of Assistants or County Court shall think meet to inflict.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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No person, said the Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts 1648 shall “spend his time idlely or unprofittably under pain of such punishment as the Court of Assistants or County Court shall think meet to inflict.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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No person, said the Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts 1648 shall “spend his time idlely or unprofittably under pain of such punishment as the Court of Assistants or County Court shall think meet to inflict.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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She is sexually assaulted and injured by her step-father while her mother sits idlely by.
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I'm the type of guy who believe it or not likes to be involved in the action and not just sit idlely to the side.
karbonphyber Diary Entry karbonphyber 2004
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Art or science they haue none, but liue most idlely, sitting round in great companies in the fields, deuising, and talking most vainely.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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